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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-99033" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:37.662Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:21:37.662Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99033" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99033.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99033" title: "net/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/packet: guard the ll header push in packet_rcv_spkt()\n\npacket_rcv_spkt() restores the link layer header with\n\n\tskb_push(skb, skb-\u003edata - skb_mac_header(skb));\n\nThat subtraction is only meaningful when the device actually has a link\nlayer header. packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() both wrap it in\ndev_has_header(), which is also the predicate the block comment at the\ntop of the file states the restore in terms of; packet_rcv_spkt() does\nnot. commit d549699048b4 (\"net/packet: fix packet receive on L3\ndevices without visible hard header\") introduced the helper and changed\nthe two call sites, and this one stayed behind.\n\nA device without a visible ll header can leave skb-\u003emac_header at the\n0xFFFF sentinel that __alloc_skb() initialises it to. A CAN skb does:\ninit_can_skb() sets pkt_type and ip_summed but does not reset the\nheaders, and commit 9f10374bb024 (\"can: remove private CAN skb\nheadroom infrastructure\") dropped the skb_reset_*_header() calls that\nused to be there. skb_mac_header() is then 0xFFFF, the length becomes\na large negative number and skb_push() reports it through\nskb_under_panic() -- from softirq context, so it is a full system panic\neven with panic_on_oops=0:\n\n skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8bd21bc1 len:-65455 put:-65471 head:... data:... tail:0x50 end:0x180 dev:can0\n kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x50/0x60\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n skb_push+0x38/0x40\n packet_rcv_spkt+0xe1/0x170\n __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x7e8/0xd30\n ...\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nThe socket type is reachable: packet_create() accepts SOCK_PACKET\nalongside SOCK_RAW and SOCK_DGRAM behind the same CAP_NET_RAW check,\nand neither the socket length nor a capability check keeps it away\nfrom a CAN interface.\n\nThe missing skb_reset_*_header() calls in init_can_skb() are a\nregression in their own right and are being fixed separately, but a\npacket socket should not turn a link layer that did not initialise its\nmac header into a kernel panic. Guard the push the way the other two\nreceive paths do.\n\nTested on v7.3-rc5 under QEMU with a slcan device on a pty, which is\nthe driver RX path: vcan does not reproduce it, because can_send()\nresets the headers on the way out. One SOCK_PACKET socket bound to\ncan0 and one frame written into the line discipline panics an\nunpatched kernel with the trace above; the same image with this patch\nprints no panic and powers off normally. Both kernels are this tree,\ndefconfig plus CONFIG_CAN_SLCAN=y, differing only in this hunk." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8a24b9e1774a93943caf68d48c5e17be432220b"},{"version":"d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31c7b15b3716e8d0dad58d2c3cdf321dfd06f4be"},{"version":"d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3efe0e0944157fdd2072b4dc7eb0491a317ed272"},{"version":"d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00fbf71e74115f7628fc0880b855434b1e70c40c"},{"version":"d549699048b4b5c22dd710455bcdb76966e55aa3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28bc1ef699610ee09ce3d46a00552f5a0a0144bd"},{"version":"dadddde259a19105ee69e788835f4d4552767aa9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.9.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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